Homage to Galileo: Circle, Square, Trianglein Three Dimensions
created by Jane Davis Doggett

Philosophy is written in this grand book — I mean the universe — which stands
continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to
comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is
written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles,
and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand
a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.